Love

Upon Love.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

IN a Dreame, Love bad me go
To the Gallies there to Rowe;
In the Vision I askt, why?
Love as briefly did reply;
Twas better there to toyle, then prove
The turmoiles they endure that love.
I awoke, and then I knew
What Love said was too too true:
Henceforth therefore I will be
As from Love, from trouble free.
None pities him that's in the snare,
And warn'd before, wo'd not beware.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/629/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/629/.

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